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== Would you weigh in on which userbox? ==

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Would you mind being the tie-breaker for Davidy and me? It's the conversation that has evolved out of [[User talk:Davidy22#autoblocking suspicious users]] whether we should use IronyChef's {{tl|UserBox}}, or the {{tl|Userbox}} templates that I imported from wikipedia. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 16:05, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Comic Template

Hey,

Just in reference to your todo list, {{comic}} is quite human unreadable, I agree. Part of the problem is that if you add line breaks and spacing to templates with layout and if statements it can quickly break the code. I'll try to clean it up a bit though. TheHYPO (talk) 15:59, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

No problem; I've done the best I can do. I used some noinclude to allow for some whitespace which I think helps, but the tradeoff is I includeonly-ed the whole template, and then just put a sample to show what it looks like. without images and things, the default on the page didn't show much anyway.

I was having a similar discussion with User:SlashMe about the comic/comicheader templates. He suggestd the comic template be compartmentalized to include other subtemplates so pieces can be used where the whole is not needed (this navbar could be such a piece). I just wasn't sure when pieces (or which pieces) would ever be useful alone. I figure we could create a text field (like 'text1') where the image field is just to be used as backup for weird days without requiring the user to create their own box and piece together the subtemplates. I'm open to discussion, but nobody has suggested to me which pieces they'd like to compartmentalize and what a possible use would be. I included the comicheader template as it was when I built the comic template, but I also added improvements. For example, the prev box used to show on all comics other than comic 1. I changed it to also check if the previous comic has an article. I think that's the best way to do it until all the article have comics. Also, I added some spacing so where there is no next or prev, the comic#/date box is more or less centred still. I think it would make more sense to do any improvements or edits to the {{comic}} template and if its agreed to subdivide it, the up to date navbar from that can be pulled out to replace the old comicheader template. TheHYPO (talk) 16:22, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

RE: Welcome

Thanks. By missing extensions, I was just jokingly referencing how a key number of extensions were, at least at first, missing, such as the references and ability to upload multiple files (Extension:MultiUpload). Is the signature really a problem, though? I just imported the same signature that I used on the RuneScape wiki (7K edits like a baws). In the page source, it's actually far more streamlined than most peoples' signatures, as it is templated (and not substituted). I could change it if absolutely necessary, although I am slightly attached to it, and do have to point out we don't actually have a signature policy (perhaps we should have one, though, particularly before someone starts creating five line sigs). OmegaTalk • Contribs 21:08, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Heh, sorry, rather used to the somewhat laxer signature policy on the RuneScape wiki (some of my past sigs). I changed it to a slightly simpler signature, just two colours, and would say that's a bit less "flashy". Don't really know how much more I can scale down before it'd just be a plain link. I like being creative. OmegaTalk • Contribs 22:28, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

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